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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



Each one of these heads is a 



prize ! They were selected with 



great care and judgment when the 



Kenai moose country was wide open, 



and moose heads could be pur- 

 chased by those who had the price. 



We fancy that the world never has 



seen another such a gathering of 



enormous moose heads as the 



Mackay collection. Here are the 



spread measurements of a few: 76 



in., 7ll, 7H, 69^, 67^, 66j and 



() ti inches. 



Besides the splendid s])read and 



massiveness of these antlers, tlu v 



show many variations of form, and 



tendencies toward freakiness, which 



are not only interesting but of de- 

 cided zoological value. No two of them are quite heads. Each one has been selected and included 

 alike. At one end of the series is the extremely for some specific reason that the good judge of 

 attenuated and bifurcated form of antlers, and antlers will readih' divine. Some are very 

 at the other the broad, circling shovel, so cup- long, and others are very massive, with less 

 shaped in the middle that a palmation would length. Altogether, they make a commanding 

 readily hold a quart of water. Verily, these heads series. 



were taken in the days when Giant Moose, {Al- Up to the time of the receipt of Mr. ISIackay's 



ces gigas). on the Kenai were plentiful and big. gift, we had been without a single head of a bull 



The ten wapiti heads are almost, though not bison from the plains. Now we have four, — 



quite, equal in rank and variation to the moose two for each series. They are large,' modern 



in mounting, and j)erfect in every 



way. 



Truly, it is cause for congratu- 

 lation that this great collection, 



now almost impossible to duplicate 



at any price, has, through Mr. 



Mackay 's generosity been placed 



where it will be permanently pre- 

 served, and seen and studied by 



thousands of interested persons. 

 W. T. H. 



\t the forty-first annual meeting 

 of tlie American Fisheries Society, 

 held in St. Louis in September, Dr. 

 Charles H. Townsend, Director of 

 the New York Aquarium, was elect- 

 ed Vice-President of the Society. 



FOUR AMERICAN BISON HEADS. 

 Mackay Collection. 



